[He nods coolly; it is, in many ways, a compliment to him to be regarded so, and then it is not.]

We are not a people of one mood only; I shall call my father's kin dark and my mother's valiant, and yet her second brother is not so. The one thing which I wager all of kin, near and far, possess is a will which will not let go of what they have set their mind on once or what path they have stepped on, it should prove disastrous or not.